I have actually known it for quite a while… that what is moral and what is legal is not always one and the same thing.
Same about fairness. As kids we used to wail “But it’s not fair!” as though everything simply must be fair or else. Or else what? Well, not in this life.

It is looking as though our once lovely classic car will likely be written off. The insurance company would allow us to insure it only for the maximum amount that they believed was its worth, and that value came from a set of tables that listed commercial prices for old cars. We had ours valued and a greater sum agreed upon, but it is still a very low sum and is the total amount payable should the car be written off.

But here is the catch… We may accept a cheque for the sum insured, a sum that is likely to amount to only half the cost of repairs, but the car then changes ownership and belongs to the insurance company.

What? Whoa there!
That is our car, our once lovely classic car that is unique and hard to replace with another the same in kind and condition. Why must we forfeit our car just because some irresponsible youth drove on the wrong side of the road and caused us this damage? We don’t even know him, and he did this to us, and we are to lose?
Yep, life is not fair.

The likely outcome… since we mean to keep the car, we will be ourselves paying out of our own pocket to do so. It is a lot of money, and much more than any 18 year old kid is likely to have, nor his Dad to want to pay in his place. There will be no legal obligation for them to contribute - under terms of the insurance policies - although it is easy to see that maybe there is some moral obligation to put right such a situation.
What is legally right, and what is morally right, is not one and the same thing.

But talk about fair… what do you make of the following?

Marluddin Jalil, a Sharia judge in Aceh, is blaming last year’s tsunami on the sins of the people, particularly of women. The Sharia police claim the tsunami happened because women ignored religion.
Tsunami was God’s revenge for your wicked ways, women told (Times Online)

In such conditions [poverty and decay] wild theories about the tsunami thrive. In a version of Pop Idol organised by the American and Indonesian Red Cross in Barak Lampaseh camp in Banda Aceh, the winner was 12-year-old Sheila Mentari, whose song told how God sent the wave as punishment for sin. She said her father, who died in the wave, would have approved.

A fellow villager Marzuki Lidan, 46, who lost his wife and children, was among the enthusiastic audience. He said: “The Sharia police are good Muslims doing an excellent job. We must listen to them and follow God's rules. Otherwise the tsunami will happen again.”

But why pick out the women in particular?
And is this really God’s justice?
Or man’s attempt to make sense of these massive tragedies that plague our planet at present?
After all, if any one of us deserves His justice, then surely we all do?

And justice is supposed to be a good and welcome thing - a putting right, not just retribution.

I get the feeling that justice is sprinkled piecemeal around the planet, some of it here, some of it there, and some of it missing some folks altogether… in this life, anyway.

Matthew 5:45 He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.